216 ME. M. JACOBT ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA [Mar. 6, 



punetate-striate, the interstices convex, flavous, a broad transverse 

 band at the base and another near the apex black. 



Length 4 millira. 



Head fulvous, impunctate, slightly uneven, the eyes nearly 

 continuous at the vertex ; antennae extending beyond the middle of 

 the elytra, black, the lower four joints flavous, the third and the 

 following three joints gradually increasing in length, the terminal 

 ones shorter ; thorax twice as broad as long, slightly widened at 

 the middle, fulvous, the basal margin narrowly black, the posterior 

 angles flavous, the entire surface covered with longitudinal fine 

 striga? without punctures, posterior margin finely serrate ; scu- 

 tellum black, with a fulvous basal spot, its apex truncate ; elytra 

 very slightly narrowed posteriorly, deeply and closely punctate- 

 striate, the interstices strongly longitudinally costate, especially so 

 at the sides, flavous, the base with a broad transverse black band, 

 not quite extending to the lateral margins, another similar band is 

 placed close to the apex, leaving the latter of the flavous ground- 

 colour ; underside and legs pale fulvous, finely pubescent. 



Hah. Moliro, Africa (Dv.vivier). 



This is another of those species having the thorax closely 

 strigose, which seem confined to Africa ; the other two known 

 species, C. araticollis Chap, and C. natalensis Jac, are devoid 

 of elytral bands. I received the specimen from the Belgian 

 Museum. 



CrTPTOCEPHAIXS SALISBCRIEXSIS, sp. n. 



Head and the underside black ; thorax impunctate, flavous, with 

 two large black spots ; elytra moderately strongly punetate-striate, 

 flavous : a round spot on the shoulders, a sutural transverse spot at 

 the middle, and a transverse band near the apex, black ; legs flavous, 

 the femora spotted with black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head black, distinctly punctured and sparingly pubescent; the 

 clypeus and the sides of the face below the eyes yellow ; antenna? 

 slender, black, t he lower tive joints flavous, the ba«al joint black above ; 

 thorax with the sides straight or nearly so, otherwise of usual shape, 

 the basal margin near the anterior angles distinctly toothed, the 

 surface impunctate or with a few minute punctures, fulvous, with 

 a large black oblong spot at each side, not extending to the anterior 

 margin, the extreme basal margin likewise black, the other 

 margins of the ground-colour ; scutellum black ; elytra rather finely 

 punctate-striate, the interstices with some extremely fine punctures, 

 flavous, the shoulders with a black oblong spot, the suture at the 

 middle with another transverse short spot, a transverse band 

 extending across the suture but not quite to the sides is also placed 

 near the apex ; below black, the prosternum, mesosternum. and a 

 spot at the base of the abdomen yellow, the posterior angles of 

 the prosternum prolonged laterally ; femora with a black spot at 

 the middle. 



Hah. Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. Marshall). 



